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Chief Executive CY Leung and Sing Tao News Corporation chairman
Charles Ho lead the applause for the winners.
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Sing Tao News Corporation has named five 2015 Leaders of the Year.
They are Biel Crystal (HK) Manufactory founder and chief executive Yeung Kin-man; Professor Emily Chan Ying-yang director of the Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and Chinese University of Hong Kong for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response; University of Hong Kong chemistry Professor Vivian Yam Wing-wah; and two sportsmen snooker world champion Ng On-yee and top bowler Wu Siu-hong.
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying and Sing Tao News Corporation Limited chairman Charles Ho Tsu-kwok opened the ceremony held on 18 March 2016.
Ho thanked the renowned prize-giving guests who attended the ceremony, including the president and University Distinguished Professor of the City University of Hong Kong Kuo Way; Secretary for Food and Health Ko Wing-man, the headmistress of Diocesan Girls’ School Stella Lau Kun Lai-kuen; and Commission on Youth chairman Lau Ming-wai.
Other top government officials and much respected figures in different fields in society who were present to witness the birth of the new leaders of the year were Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Ceajer Chan Ka-keung; Secretary for Security Lai Tung-kwok; Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Gregory So Kam-leung; Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Raymond Tam Chi-yuen; Secretary for Education Eddie Ng Hak-kim, Secretary for Home Affairs Lau Kong-wah; and Commissioner of Police Stephen Lo Wai-chung.
A new section was added to this year’s ceremony – several secondary school student representatives were given the opportunity to ask the five leaders of the year questions about their key to success.
The five award winners were generous and willing to share their personal experiences, hoping to inspire the younger generation to inherit their spirit and stimulate the development of Hong Kong.
All five were carefully selected by a distinguished panel: Chinese General Chamber of Commerce Hong Kong president Chan Wing-kee; managing director of Hang Lung Group and Hang Lung Properties Limited Philip Chen Nan-lok; the honorary director of Breakthrough ministry and also the president of the Youth Foundation Philemon Choi Yuen-wan; Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing chairman Chow Chung-kong; lawmaker Andrew Leung Kwan-yuen; and emeritus professor of surgery of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Arthur Li Kwok-cheung.
Sing Tao News Corp has been holding the Leader of the Year award ceremony for 22 years since 1994 to recognize outstanding leaders in Hong Kong who make significant contributions to society and to encourage the younger Hong Kong people to treat them as role models in the search for self-improvement.
Winner in
Commerce & Industry/Finance
Yeung Kin-man, left, with Kuo Way |
Winner in
Community/Public Affairs/Environment & Conservation
Emily Chan with Ko Wing-man |
Winner in Education/Professions/Techology & Innovation
Vivian Yam, left, with Stella Lau |
Yeung Kin-man
Yeung Kin-man, founder and chief executive of Biel Crystal (HK) Manufactory, supplies most of the glass that makes up smartphone screens for world-leading brands like Apple and Samsung.
Yeung, born and bred in Hong Kong, is seen to be the very epitome of the “Lion Rock Spirit” – the can-do, innovative driving force that galvanized Hong Kong in the 1970s.
His Hong Kong-based company launched 30 years ago with Yeung shaping a business with around 100 employees – it has more than 100,000 internationally today – to make glass covers for watches. He was this month identified as the SAR’s 10th richest entrepreneur by Bloomberg.
Last year, when he made the richest list for the first time, he was the only Hong Kong business person on it who did not make their fortune through the property business.
In his response to being named leader of the year for the Commerce/ Finance sector, Yeung said being innovative is his key for success.
Yeung is a keen donor in the field of education, saying he wants to encourage young people to develop their creativity and potential.
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Emily Chan
Emily Chan Ying-yang – winner in the Community/Public Affairs/Environment & Conservation category – has been working for Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Hong Kong in more than 30 countries since 1990.
Professor Chan – director of the Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and Chinese University of Hong Kong for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response – is a previous awardee of the Hong Kong Ten Most Outstanding Persons Award and the World Ten Most Outstanding Persons Award.
As she shifts from her roles at the front line of the lifesaving job and her academic research at the center, she gives medical assistance to people in need and also hopes to spread her beliefs among the younger generation.
She has recently led 40 university students to Southeast Asia’s Golden Triangle border regions of Thailand, Burma and Laos for medical humanitarian response work and study.
Chan hopes the experienced and senior people in the society will be willing to give opportunities to the younger generation as she strongly believes they are enthusiastic and capable.
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Vivian Yam
The winner in the Education/Professions/Technology & Innovation category – University of Hong Kong chemistry professor Vivian Yam Wing-wah – has been internationally acknowledged for her scientific findings since joining the academy in 1990.
She has been gaining a burgeoning reputation in the academic world and has been selected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States.
In 2015, she co-founded the Academy of Sciences of Hong Kong with 27 others, continuing her effort in contributing to the science research field.
Although admitting that the path of being a research academic has not been smooth, Yam said she has never thought of giving up as she insists on facing obstacles with persistence, optimism and hard work.
On receiving the award, Yam said she is greatly indebted to Hong Kong University chemistry professor Che Chi-ming. He inspired her in research and made her realize the important responsibility of passing on knowledge to the next generation.
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Winner in Sports/Culture/Performing Arts
Ng On-yee |
Winner in Sports/Culture/Performing Arts
Wu Siu-hong, right, with Lau Ming-wai |
Ng On-yee
Snooker world champion Ng On-yee spoke of her highs and lows during her decade-long career in the sport as she collected the award in her trademark round spectacles.
Ng, 25 – a winner in the Sports/Culture/Performing Arts category – was the first Hong Kong woman to win the world amateur championship in 2009 and defended her title in 2010.
She added two professional world titles in 2015, winning the Ladies’ World Snooker and Six Red championships.
Ng said she was surprised to win the leader of the year award and thanked her coach Wayne Griffiths – son of Welsh former world champion Terry Griffiths – and her family who supported her throughout her career.
Ng said it was their support and encouragement during a low point in her career in 2014 that enabled her to bounce back last year.
The world champion’s future plans include competing against more male snooker players, which will improve her own skills.
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Wu Siu-hong
Wu Siu-hong – also a winner in the Sports/ Culture/ Performing Arts category – has been a bowler for 17 of his 31 years.
He was champion at one of bowling’s most prestigious singles tournaments – the 51st Qubica AMF World Cup in Las Vegas last year.
But this award is more than just a win in the career of a “whiz kid,” as it comes after he fought a battle with testicular cancer.
Wu was rocked by the death of his father from cancer in 2003. After being diagnosed with the disease, he said he was lucky enough to undergo surgery at an early stage and he is now fully recovered.
Wu said he has only become stronger and luckier since, as he now treasures his time bowling even more than before.
He is able to bowl to the best of his ability now that the health burden has been lifted.
Winning an individual silver at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon and the championship last year were the beginning of his comeback after overcoming cancer. He hopes to continue to excel at the sport.
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